
Janibek Alimkhanuly stops Anauel Ngamissengue to mark homecoming
Kazakhstan's Janibek Alimkhanuly didn’t waste time dispatching Anauel Ngamissengue after waiting seven years to return home for a fight, writes Jake Donovan.

Kazakhstan's Janibek Alimkhanuly didn’t waste time dispatching Anauel Ngamissengue after waiting seven years to return home for a fight, writes Jake Donovan.

On Saturday, Janibek Alimkhanuly, the IBF and WBO middleweight titleholder, will fight France’s Anauel Ngamissengue on the occasion of what represents his first fight in his home country of Kazakhstan since 2017.

Janibek Alimkhanuly is more interested in fighting Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at super middleweight than he is in becoming the undisputed champion at 160lbs

Zhanibek Alimkhanuly is set to have his first contest in his native Kazakhstan since 2017 when he defends his WBO and IBF middleweight titles against Congo-born Frenchman, Anauel Ngamissengue in Astana on April 5

Prizefighter is back and heading to Japan as a new, re-imagined world-class international tournament. In partnership with Rakuten Ticket and Never Say Never (NSN), Matchroom today confirmed at a press conference in Tokyo that a blockbuster $1 million battle will begin at the Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, on March 31 – live on Abema in Japan and DAZN worldwide (excluding Asia).